Jay Milk wrote:
Thanks for the help-offer, but I think the disadvantages of being a
linux-idiot and attempting a very ambitious install, such as Gentoo,
outweigh the few advantages which Gentoo may or may not award me. Since
this is a home-office PBX, I can afford a slightly less than optimal
kernel which (in Mandrake's case) only takes an hour or two to install.
My foray into Gentoo was painful, and it seemed to be hitting on all
kinds of hardware issues.
More to the point: I'm not smart enough to install Gentoo, but I'm smart
enough to admit defeat and move on.
Actually, Gentoo is a pretty decent distro even for a newbie, as long as
you can follow directions fairly well. The Gentoo install handbook is
excellent, and details what you need to do step-by-step. The advantage
is that you actually learn what's going on in the background rather than
have it hidden behind a pretty installer :-)
The only drawback to Gentoo, particularly for a stage 1 install (build
everything from scratch) is that it takes quite a bit of time. My
laptop (P4 1.6) took about 2 days to get completely setup with X and
KDE. On the other hand, dual P4 2.4 Xeon boxes seem to build up into
servers pretty darn quick :-)
I've got twenty-some gentoo boxes, with a couple of them running
Asterisk.
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Matt White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Arts and Science Computer Labs University of Saskatchewan
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